MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1741, 24 May 1888, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A rich vein o£ manganese has been found on property at Makara, Wellington, The assay shows 70 per cent of ore. The Wellington branch of the Irish National League will forward £IOO next mail to the Lord Mayor of Dublin. A largely attended meeting at Christchurch on Tuesday nighty decided* to get up a petition to* Parliament praying for the abolition of the totalisator.

A demand has,arisen at Dunedin for, suburb,ah propel suitable for subdivisibri and 20 acres'near, town have been snapped -up by representatives of foreign capitalists who are seeking investments. It was stated in court by a Justice of * the Peace on Tuesday that* the present value of the place was just what it fetched, as he knew of one in that city, that -cost £4OOO to put up bringing *in only £3O a year. The dead body of a Mrs Alary Mackenzie, a dressmaker living at Mangawhare, Dargaville, Auckland, was found on Monday on the bank of the river at ebb tide. There was a severe wound on the mouth, apparently fropi a b10w.... The ,front teeth of deceased had the, 1 lip. Mrs Mackenzie was at Church on Sunday evening, acqom,pa,nied,by two gentlemen. About nine o’clock screams of a women, apparently pirbceeding from the direction of the, river, were heard, but no, one was seen. . Ihe , case has - caused considerable excitement, as the circumstances point to murder or jpdcide.(, Deceased on returning from church cone Sunday in March last, found some men in her house, and she had since i b,66rf fin great fear. - Her haabdhd is said'to! be working at the gumfields.

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